Booting a B&W via PCI Firewire?

I know the B&W won't boot from the on board Firewire, but can it boot from a PCI Firewire card? I know the Beige can't but can the B&W?
Rick

The end result I'm seeking is to dual boot OS X and Ubuntu 7.04. OS X will not install on the on board HDD. I was hoping to test the ability to boot OS X from a Firewire drive. If I could boot OS X from something other than the on board HDD, than it would isolate the ATA bus as being at fault. However, if I have to boot OS X from the on board HDD before I can boot from the Firewire drive, and I can't boot OS X from the on board HDD, then I'm back to square-one.
300 MHz B&W Rev. 1, 6.1 GB HDD, 128-512 MB RAM, good PRAM battery.
Steps:
Installed OS 9.1 on Partition 1 (3 GB) of onboard HDD. Booted
Installed Ubuntu 7.04 on partition 2 (3 GB) of onboard HDD. Booted
Lost OS 9 partition. Separate issue.
Reformatted Drive.
Installed 10.2, disk 1, on Partition 1 (3 GB) HDD. Failed to boot.
Flashed PRAM. failed to boot.
Reset NVRAM. failed to boot.
Installed OS 9.1 on Partition 1
Ran firmware update 1.2. Says Firmware is up to date. failed to boot to OS X.
Replaced RAM with known good RAM. failed to boot to OS X.
Booted to OS9
Connected Firewire drive with Tiger installed to on board FW. Didn't show up.
Installed PCI Firewire card. Connected FW drive. Showed up, but still can't boot to OS X.
Booted to OS 9. Downloaded and installed XPostFacto. Says No OS X on Partition 1. but shows Tiger on the Firewire Drive. Chose Partition 1 as helper (The OS X files are there) and Tiger as the boot. Failed to boot.
Using XPostFacto, chose 10.2 on CD-ROM. Failed to boot. Not sure why. Will try another PRAM flash.
Gave up for the night.
Rick

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